Tagline: got wood?
The obituary for Jim Allen (1938–2025) is available in Australian Archaeology. Read the tribute here:
www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/doi/full/10....
This #findsfriday we have an oblong gold covered bone pendant possibly in the form of two horns, decorated with an engraved chequered pattern and possibly an earring.
Excavated by William Cunnington in the 19th Century it was found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford
I normally don’t criticise personal decor choices but honestly I do have a problem with the asterisk here. If you’re gonna do that you need to commit, go all in
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Realised that a) today is the eleven year anniversary of Tones chomping into an onion; and b) the event has its own Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ab...
Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM
I do voluntary work in my town that lets me use my personal skills, i do specific mentoring in my professional circles to support women and queer folk, i have standing donations to orgs that feed people, a specific thing i care about a lot.
One of the things i like to do is think about what "my backyard" looks like and where i can put my values in action. I care about a million things and there's so much need, so i try to focus on specific things i personally can offer 1/2
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
I have suspected for awhile that we are already seeing the violence that runs downstream of (mostly) privileged (mostly) men with gambling addictions. And it will only get worse.
Everything will, in the end, have been about crypto and fossil fuels and we are mostly just casualties. Sigh.
Ubiquitously advertised betting available through the computer you carry in your pocket via apps designed and managed by ruthlessly efficient data scientists and programmers seems like a mistake. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
How have women on the margins of urban society used tattoos as a form of self-expression?
@nastashasartore.bsky.social considers the cultural significance of tattooing in Victorian Britain.
The first issue of the 2026 Volume of Current Anthropology is out this week! I want to particularly flag the amazing work of our 2025 VIsual Media Competition winner Clara Beccaro - you can read her essay and see all her submitted pieces here. Two runners up will be featured in future issues
This is why we recently updated our PPS peer review guidance a few months back to make it clear that uploading papers into, or using, genAI to write reviews is entirely unacceptable.
I’m sorry but this is very funny
Recently published in @jcultecon.bsky.social: @vkluzik.bsky.social on the genealogy of the concept of "carrying capacity" and how it was seized and shaped by both ecologists and economists. Must read for anyone interested in the links between population and the environment.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.
Sometimes I think music is as close as we get to what we think religion does. It’s wild how it affects so many physiological things.
I put these Luddite prints up on my letterpress print store (store.wolfproofpress.com) if anyone is interested. (Store is new, so this is its initial test—let me know if you run into any issues?)
Parrots, ancient DNA, and a long trek across the Andes! 🦜🧬🏔️ Check out the video summary for our latest @natcomms.nature.com paper by @wildlifemessengers.org. We discovered pre-Inca societies transported live Amazonian parrots from the rainforest to the Pacific coast: youtu.be/Vb5eoTaGLO0
Academia finds a whole new low into which to sink
New video feature on our work by the Blavatnik Foundation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNo...
Dive into the world of ancient threads with the latest episode of Tea-Break Archaeology! Discover the oldest clothing artifacts and explore what they tell us about early humans. 👗 Listen now and share your thoughts! #Archaeology #ArchaeologyPodcast #AncientClothing
I also really want to flag Alyssa Paredes' brilliant essay outlining "Plantation Liberalism" that opens this issue - this (OA) essay and its comments do the sort of impactful cutting edge intellectual work that Curr Anth is truly luck to be able to publish
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The first issue of the 2026 Volume of Current Anthropology is out this week! I want to particularly flag the amazing work of our 2025 VIsual Media Competition winner Clara Beccaro - you can read her essay and see all her submitted pieces here. Two runners up will be featured in future issues
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My first copy of Quiet Protest just arrived! It will be out on 1 April, published by @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social (although there will be early copies for sale at the Newcastle Writers Festival from 27-29 March) and launches and author talks to follow.
I say this all the time but the level of casual racism and antisemitism i encountered in Oxford was just off the charts in ways that really shocked me - and that's coming from the us where the racism is absolutely not casual
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